Furthermore. we do not wish to assimilate that class of aliens which has been coming during the last decade. To do so would give us a badperhaps incurablecase of national indigestion. Prior to 12882 immigration to this country was practically unregulated. Since that time. until within the past two years. agitation and legislation has been largely directed against the Chinese and Japanese. I do not hold any brief for these races. and can not speak from personal observation of conditions on the Pacific coast. but there are some facts in this connection worthy of note. During the century for which records of our immigration are available. only 2.4 per cent.of the total came from all of Asia. According to the census of 1910. there were then only 56.756 Chinese in this country. which was less than half the number in this country according to the census of 1890. since which date there has been a rapid decrease in the Chinese population. In fact. there are fewer Chinese in this country than there were 50 years ago.
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